MOAR FRIENDS

[moonwise]

Some of you might remember the post about Mr. Feets.

Sadly, Mr. Feets met a bad end - something bored into his chrysalis - and we were just devastated.

Today I went out to inspect my flowers, and there on the butterfly weed were THREE BRAND NEW FRIENDS chowing down on the seedpods.







LOOKY HOW TINY THIS GUY IS OMG ICKLE ANTENNAS



They're all monarch caterpillars, so I'm hoping that they fare better than poor Mr. Feets.

On the downside, there are caterpillar poopins all over my flowers. :/

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Awww, I'm so sorry about poor Mr Feets. But it's nice that you now have a new set of little stripy parasites to munch through your plants :-)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Stripy parasites? D: Aw. Actually, I planted butterfly weed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_weed) just so that they would come to visit and use my garden to propagate themselves. :)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to do some of that kind of thing myself. This year was the bathroom project, next year the garden. I'm going to have to get the professionals in to clear the enormous tracts of ivy growing everywhere. The previous owners left it to take over for twenty years....